Show Me Readers Award
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Show Me Readers Nominees 2015-2016
Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.
A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events.
A pet hamster is enticed by the family cat to venture outside his well-equipped cage to the sunroom only to very quickly discover life outside his cage is not the best for him.
After planning for months to have the perfect school picture taken, a boy's moment of weakness ruins everything.
When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.
Brian has always felt invisible at school, but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes.
Follow a girl's perusal of her great-grandfather's collection of matchboxes and small curios that document his poignant immigration journey from Italy to a new country.
As the annual school spelling bee nears its finish, two students compete with equal success until the principal breaks the tie with an unusual word.
As the annual school spelling bee nears its finish, two students compete with equal success until the principal breaks the tie with an unusual word.
As the annual school spelling bee nears its finish, two students compete with equal success until the principal breaks the tie with an unusual word.
When Wilfred, a big, hairy, and lonesome giant, enters a town full of tiny bald people, he finds only one friend but that proves to be enough when the other townspeople trick him out of his warm hair.